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I think the original author needs to give the move order and a reference to Carlson playing it, as it appears some people are referring to the Bongcloud Attack but giving different moves. Nakamura is …

What Crosstable, where? https://lichess.org/@/Sidonia-ChessEngine

I read about it once, and without reading to check, here is my take on things. (1) Suppose in a position analysis at depth 1,2,3,..,n (where n is quite small) shows the best move to be xxxx and roughl…

That's a reasonable explanation of what I think might be the cause, yes. https://lichess.org/@/Sidonia-ChessEngine

Because their child slips and cuts their lip, for example? Sorry soni777new,1 minute ago... you beat me to it.

It seems we are all in agreement that engine evaluation is a very fast inaccurate estimate of a position. So then there is no reason to complain if you are trying to read a lot into the value it calcu…

An engine will usually have a hash table for storing positions analyzed. Suppose the hash table has a million entries and the engine analyses a million positions per second. Then clearly after a few s…

"But these computer evaluations are a joke anyway." If you have a better evaluation function than modern chess engines feel free to show us. The real evaluation of any position is win/draw/loss and th…

From the question above... "he got rude and said that cheating was acceptable against a bot in a casual game" .. note the word "Casual". From the link above ... "No use of outside assistance in rated …

"For example, when playing a grand master you obviously are going to play a fool and open with nothing but mistakes ..." And get punished for it!